Abstract
Religions often articulate worldviews that sharply contrast a morally corrupt social order with a purer, if utopian, counterpart. In the Abrahamic tradition, the time of corruption is contrasted with a time when an agent of God, or prophet, arrived (or will arrive) to lead the people into a new era of righteousness or guidance. For instance, in Christianity, the world was corrupted by the primordial parents of humanity, Adam and Eve, who sinned in the blissful Garden of Eden and corrupted the world and their countless human descendents (i.e., Original Sin). This world of imperfection and sin will one day be perfected when Jesus Christ, who was sacrificed to redeem humanity from Original Sin, returns to the world and ushers in the eternal Kingdom of Heaven.
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Halverson, J.R., Goodall, H.L., Corman, S.R. (2011). The Jahiliyyah . In: Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-11723-5_4
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